St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-30

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A telegram from Milwaukee says thai
Gambrinus Assembly of the Knights of La
Dor is about to withdraw from the order OF
account of the total abstinence views O.
General Master Workman Powderly. The
assembly is the largest and Wealthiest ir
Milwaukee, and has nearly l., 500 members
The State Department is advised that the
| Spanish government has prolonged until
December 81 next the suspension of differ
ential duties on Cargoes in United States yes,
sells imported at Cuba and Porto Rico, and
has also extended the modus niUendi Of Octo-
| ber last to other countries with which Spain
| has treaties
The American minister to Belgium reports
to the State Department that the Belgian
government has increased the import duty
on coffee, cattle and meat, and that after
January 1 next, meat will not be permitted
to enter Belgium except in the form of whole
animals, and halves and forequarters of ami
mails only when the lungs are attached.
A movement has been started among lead
ing business men of Buffalo to raise a fund of
100000 which will be offered as a prize for
the best invention for utilizing the water
power of Niagara river. The competition
will be open to the world. Several prOmi-
nent citizens have already subscribed 81 900
each toward the fund.
The State Department has received from
the German Emperor a check for 81 900 and
two handsome gold watches, embellished
with the likeness and monogram of the En-
peror, with request that the money be di
vided equally among the families of the five
members of the ife-saving crew at Dam Neck
Mill Station, Virginia, who lost their lives in
attempting to rescue the crew Of the German
ship Elizabeth on the Sth of January last, and
that the watches be presented to Frank Ted
ford and Joseph E. Etheridge, the only sur
vivors of the lfe-saving crew.
The Sons of Veterans are encamped at New
burg, n. y. The order was organized five
years ago with five posts. 1t now has seventy
seven posts in New York State and others
have been organized in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts, There
are 200 delegates in the enCampment, repre-
senting 1900 members. \ national Organi
ZatiOn is to be formed.
Professor Forbes, State entomologist of
Illinois, says that ''chinch bugs have OBJ
tanned foothold in the northern portion of
Illinois TO such an extent as to assure an i'm
mense number of them next year, unless
weather unfavOrable to their development
should Intervene He says that the dan
ger from this source threatens to damage the
wheat crop Of 1888 to an extent in compari-
son with which the pleuro-pneumOnia and
other recent outbreaks of contagious diseases
among domestic animals will be insgnif-
can't"
1t is reported fr ! FL Paso, Tex, that close
upon the heels ofthe news of the earthquake
at Bavispe come the details of a still greater
calamity at Bacariac, a town twenty miles
from Bavispe. 1t had before the catastrophe
1200 inhabitants. When Bavispe was de-
stroyed the town was badly shaken up and
most of the inhabitants fled. Since then the
town of Bacariac has been visited by a sue
cession of shocks that have reduced the
whole town to ruins; most of the people es-
capped, as they fled to the country terror
stricken on the first disturbance.
Dorothea L. Dix, once of national repute
as philanthropist, died in the State Asylum
at Trenton, N, j., aged eighty years. The
State gave her home in the asylum five
years ago.
At Lancaster, Pa, a fire started in
Abraham Hirschs millinery store, the scene
of former fire, and extended to Hirsch &
Brothers clothing store adjoining. Both stores
were burned out. and Long Il Sons drug
store was damaged. The loss of Hirsch &
Brothers is estimated at $4,000; insurance,
s35, 600. Abraham Hirsch has $4,000 insur-
ance on his building and stock.
A fire at Owensboro, KY. destroyed nine
buildings. Twelve horses were burned to
death in stable. The total loss is estimated
at $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The storehouse of the Burlington and
Missouri River railway at Lincoln, Neb, has
been burned. Loss, 100000; insured.
The St. Anthony elevator, near Mime
apolis has burned. 1t was a triple struc-
,ure, and had capacity of 2, 700, 900 bushels. !
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
r. NJ. T. Hunter has died at Fount Hill,
Essex county Va, at the age of seventy |
eight years. He served several terms in
Congress and was Speaker Of the National |
House of Representatives in 1889. He was
elected United States senator,
md was appointed chairman of the Senate |
nance committee in 1919. He was sue
,essively elected United States senator, and |
'etained the Craftsmanship of the finance COM
nittee until the breaking out of the war. He |
vas one of the candidates for the presidential |
nomination before the Democratic Conven-
ion at Charleston in $780, and received many
yotes During the war he was Confederate
Secretary of State and Confederate senator.
he was also a member of the Peace Com
mission, which met Abraham Lincoln in
Hampton Roads. After the war he was
lected treasurer of Virginia, and held that
'fice for several terms.
The photographic office at Washington is
dvised that this summer an unusually
arge number of great icebergs have drifted
cry much further to the southwark than
hey usually do. In the past six weeks
more than forty have been reported"
At meeting of the guarantors of the next
ears Cincinnati Centennial Exposition, the
um of 5000, 900 was reported as already sub
cribed with $4,000 more promised, and ad-
itional subscriptions coming in daily. The
itizens committee reported that guarantee
otes had already been executed for s7S5, 900.
he prospect is. that the 100000 required